there couldn't have been that many ex-servicemen joining the guildhall at that stage, or were there? >> i--i felt a little bit out of place because i was older than most of them. >> yeah. you'd had no real music education until then? >> no. >> did you find that the late arrival into the classical music scene meant you weren't completely institutionalized by the rules as it were? >> well, it's possible that i hadn't been kind of over-educated in music, and so that i had a kind of naivety as well. >> ♪ suddenly i'm not half the man i used to be ♪ >> if you look at that "yesterday" score, it's pretty naive, but it does work. >> ♪ oh, yesterday came suddenly ♪ >> it's very, very simple writing, but it couldn't be anything else. if it were, it would destroy what the point--point of the song is, which is utter simplicity. i did this in an afternoon. i had it my mind what i had to do, and, um, it was just straightforward. >> ♪ yesterday >> the guildhall wasn't just a school of music, it was a school for music and drama, and i think that that in itself was tremendous for help to me